LogFAQs > #913770204

I really take issue with this idea that they're "dead". The streak they had was ALWAYS in jeopardy. They were rarely ever the top 9 in the xstats, there was a hotly debated match featuring N9 vs. non-N9 in every contest (I think), you had almost-disasters like Samus/Tifa 06 and Snake/Bowser 05 and then the four-ways happened.

IMO there have been several individual contests pre-2010 - maybe even all of them - where they weren't the top 9 characters in the contest and would have lost in the right circumstances. Then rallies happened in 2007, 2010 and 2013 and decimated contest "normality".

In the end they're historically the top 9 characters, I would say, in addition to the fact that they have been in every contest, they're all still at least in the top, what, 15-20, they got all the 1 seeds in the 2013 contest and had Character Battle IX specifically themed around them, and even had a legends bracket given to them in this contest.

It's not "dead", you just have to reassess how you think about them. These silly caveats are worthless. The streak has been dead since 2010, but the Noble Nine won't die to me until one of them fails to make a contest.
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